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    Alienware m17x r2 electrical buzzing noise

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by luigid, Mar 13, 2014.

  1. luigid

    luigid Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all, cleaning out my alienware to open houses is avvere an electric buzz is not very strong ( in fact in case you do not feel closed ) state that :
    - Removed all the laptop to see if it was something short but nothing
    - Cloth used on a motherboard with only ssd to boot windows with passive video card all in just those 2 minutes to test with external vga screen and battery , still the same noise.
    the noise looks like this:
    Corsair tx650w coil whine - YouTube
    but mine is much smaller , the other thing I thought it was the harddrive but it is only since leaving the ssd feels the same .
    when I used only the motherboard and ssd on the cloth by placing the ear this sound comes right from the chipset on the motherboard , I had thought about changing the smd electrolytic capacitors but I do not know if they are ...
    else trying to make a raid between 2 ssd with 2 different older versions of windows 7 32bit I installed the operating system, but with windows 7 64 bit tells me that the driver is not set by the bios as a boot disk (lol) , also being set wrong, same thing with new versions of win8 and win732bit 32/64bit , why? :S
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    ah precise I would also go to this configuration:
    i7 740QM
    5870m only
    1400x900
    4gb ram
    to
    i7 920XM
    7970M
    1920x1200
    16gb ram
    then if I get the chance x2 raid 0 ssd 256GB samsung evo
    I accept suggestions: P